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The April 2005
Winner Is... |
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Halls High School
and Middle School Agriculture Education Program |
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Leader: Mike
Blankenship |
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Halls High
Agriculture Education program has partnered with FEMA, the Knox
County Government, Knox County Schools, the Knox County
Adopt-A-Watershed Program, and other partners to create a 3.2 acre
outdoor classroom that demonstrates the capability of a
1400-square-foot rain garden. |
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The rain
garden helps to hold back stormwater runoff,
filter runoff water, and recharge water sources. Student groups
from Halls High and Halls Middle School have planted many trees
and plants that help prevent soil erosion on the site.
Best planting
practices were identified and implemented, including mulching and
the addition of composted leaves to soil. For more information,
contact Mike Blankenship at (865) 925-7565 at Halls High School,
email:
Dogwood1@esper.com |
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The February 2005
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McEwen High School |
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Chemistry Class |
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Leader: Olivia Ezell |
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Under the leadership of Olivia Ezell, chemistry
students at McEwen High School tested the water quality at three
sites along Blue Creek in the Duck River watershed. |
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Using a GREEN water monitoring kit, the group
tested for temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH level, phosphate and
nitrate levels. The results showed that chemically the water
quality was good; two of the sites had temperature differences.
For more
information, contact Constance Brown at:
McEwen
High School
(931) 582-6950
chemistrybrown@msn.com
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The January 2005
Winner Is... |
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Blount County 4-H
Students |
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Leader:
Melissa Nance-Richwine |
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Blount
County 4-H students using GPS units collected data on pollution
sources along Pistol Creek in the Little River Watershed. The
4-H students attended four training sessions on mapping, using GPS
and water quality, |
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then
used their ‘water quality education’ to walk the stream and
identify and log the location of pollution sites. Once these
sites were documented, the information was collected in a database
to direct future work in the Little River Watershed in order to
improve water quality for the community. For more information,
contact
Melissa Nance-Richwine
at:
Little River Watershed
Association
1004 E. Lamar Alexander
Parkway
Maryville, TN 37804
865-980-2130
littleriverwatershed@hotmail.com |
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The December 2004
Winner Is... |
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Project Coordinator:
Randle Branch |
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Administrator:
Angela Jackson |
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'Water We Here For?' is a
cooperative project of the Stones River Watershed Association and
the City of Murfreesboro, Parks and Recreation to give children in
an after school program an opportunity to learn about our watershed,
specifically Lytle Creek. |
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was collected on stream life and the stream was visually surveyed
for pollution. A chemical and physical analysis of the water
was also conducted.
This project was
planned to be a continuing work, with five sessions of eight
weeks' duration next year. Guidelines of the project can be
used by other groups at other locations in the Stones River
Watershed. The group's collection of equipment will be made
available to groups for check out for their own projects, and the
data collected by these groups can be used to develop a baseline
of water quality in the watershed and to identify sites needing
work. For more information about 'Water We Here For' contact
Randle Branch at
cedarbranchfarm@aol.com (615-893-6992) or Angela Jackson at
ajack847@united.net
(615-893-1802). |
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Stream Saver
Winners 2003/2004 |
